Printing press for frozen edible sticks and stricks holding molded candy



Jan. 22, 1957 D. P. RUSSEY 2,778,298

PRINTING PRESS FOR FROZEN EDIBLE sTIcKs AND STICKS HOLDING MOLDED CANDY Filed 001;. 28, 1953 4 Sheets-Sheet 1 WYM ATTORNEYS Jan. 22, 1957 P, RUSSEY PRINTING PRESS FOR FROZEN EDIBLE STICKS AND STICKS HOLDING MOLDED CANDY 4 Sheets-Sneet 2 Filed Oct. 28, 1953 INVENTION ,Ofifiu ase 1 ATTORNEYS Jan. 22, 1957 D. P. RUSSEY 2,778,298

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4 9 INVENTOR 5 pzzaww ATTORNEYS Jan. 22, 1957 D. P. RUSSEY PRINTING PRESS FOR FROZEN EDIBLE STICKS AND STICKS HOLDING MOLDED CANDY 4 Sheets-Sheet 4 Filed Oct. 28, 1953 INVENTOR ,0 B R u 556 3 ATTORNEYS United States Patent PRINTING PRES FGR FROZEN EDIBLESTICKS AND STICKS HOLDING MGLDED CANDY 1). Park Russey, Abilene, Tex.

Application October 28, 1953, Serial No. 388,782

6 Claims. (Cl. 101-44) This invention relates to a printing machine for the printing of sticks for frozen edibles, or candy molded on sticks.

In frozen edibles the article is usually mounted on a stick which is either round or flat. The printing press embodied in this invention is particularly designed for printing on a round stick, and preferably the printing is doneon diametrically opposed sides of the stick.

Another object of this invention is to provide an improved feeding means for the sticks, including means for discharging the printed sticks.

A further object of this invention is to provide in a printing machine a type inking roller including means movable bythe roller for discharging a printed stick.

A further object of this invention is to provide a printing press wherein two colors of ink may be printed at one time.

With the above and other objects in view, my invention consists in the arrangement, combination and details of construction disclosed in the drawings and specification, and then more particularly pointed out in the appended claims.

In the drawings:

Figure 1 is a detailed side elevation of a'printing machine constructed according to an embodiment of this invention.

Figure 2 is a plan view of the machine.

Figure 3 is a fragmentary sectional view taken on the line 33 of either Figure 2 or 4.

Figure 4 is a sectional view taken on the line 4-4 Referring to the drawings the numeral .10 designates generally a base which is supported on legs 13. The.

base has disposed on the upper side thereofa pair of aligned slide members 11 which are slidable between guides 12 secured to the base 10, and a plate 14 is secured over the upper end of the guides 12 and each slide 11.

The slides 11 are movable toward and away from each other and are operated by means of a pair of crank shafts 1'5 journalled in bearings 16 secured to the base 10.,

The crank shafts have secured to one endthereof a relatively large gear 17, and the two gears17 ,mesh with each other so that the slides 11 will move in opposite directions, as will be hereinafter described.

One ofthe crank shafts 15 .has secured .theretoa pulley 18.:about which a belt'19engages, and thebelt 19,-1.6!!-

and a belt engages about the pulley-24 and about apulley 26 mounted on a motorshaft 27. The shaft 27 is operated by means of a-motor 28 -which is secured on the base 10.

Each slide 11 has extending upwardly therefrom a pair of bars 29 which loosely engage through slots 30' formed in the plate 14. A pitman or connecting rod 31 is mounted at one end of the offset 32 of the crank shaft 15 and is pivotally secured at the other end to a pivot pin 33 engaging between the bars 29.

The forward end of each slide 11 has secured thereto a type bar 34 which is secured tothe slide 11 in forwardly injecting position by means of a clamping member 35. An inking roller- 36 is carried by a shaft 37 which is journalled in bearings 38. The bearings 38 have extending right angularly'therefrom a pair of bushings 39 in which a slide rod 40 is secured by fastening means 41, as shown in Figure 8.

A fork lever generally indicated at 42 is formed with tubular arms 43 within which the rods 40 slidably engage, and the rods 41) are constantly urged inwardly of thetubular arms 43 by means of a pair of springs 44 which at one end are mounted on the set screws 41 and are mounted at the other or rear ends thereof on a bar 45 secured between the rear portions of the tubular arms 43.

The lever 42 is provided at its rear portion with a bearing boss 46 through which a pivot member 47 engages, and the pivot member 47 is carried by a pair of upstanding supporting members 48 which are fixed to the base 10.

The lever 42, which is of inverted 'L-shape, includes,

a substantially vertical arm, 49 engaging in a slot 50 formed in the rear end'of the slide 11 and the lower end of the arm 49 is formed with a slot 51 through which a pin 52 loosely engages. rear portion of the slide 11 and extends across the slot 50.

The shaft 37 has mounted thereon a pair of rollers 53 which engage over upwardly projecting guide members 54 carried by the base 10 at the forward portion of the guide 12. An inking plate 55 is carried by the upper portion of an upstanding support 56 in a position whereby the roller 36 may move over the surface of inking plate 55 at the time the lever arm 49 is rocked inwardly and slide 11 is in its innermost printing position.

When slide 11 is moved outwardly by the crank shaft 15, lever arm 49 will be rocked counterclockwise to the right thereby rocking the fork'arms :3 downwardly,

and swinging the roller 36 downwardly to a position whereby roller 36 will ride over the type bar 34 for inking the characters on the type bar.

A h0pper 5'7 is carried by the basev 1i between the slides 11 and is formed of a relatively narrow discharge or feeding chute 58 through which round sticks Share adapted to verticallyvrnove. The sticks in the hopper 57 are fed downwardly by means of a; feeding roller 60 which is preferably formed of rubber or the like, and

is carried by a shaft 61 having a pulley 62 at one endv thereof.

A belt 63 engages about pulley 62 and about a second pulley 64 mounted on the adjacent crank shaft 15, as shown in Figure 2. The vertical walls 65 and 66 of the feeding chute 58 are formed at their lower ends of horizontal slots 67 and 68 respectively, through which the type bars 34 are adapted to engage for contact with the lower one of the sticks 5.9.

The lower one -of.the.sticks ;59 is supported on a pair of vertically; adjustableqbolts which engage through the Patented Jan. 23, 1957 The pin 52 is carried by the 3 base 70 of the hopper structure, and base 70 is secured to the upper side of the base 10. Each bolt 69 is fonned with a concave seat 71 in its upper end whereon the lower stick 59 is adapted to engage.

A pair of resilient stick holding members '72 are adjustably secured by fastening means 73 to the wall 65 of the feeding chute S8 and each holding member 72 is formed with an inwardly projecting part 74 which resiliently bears against the lower one of the sticks 59.

A downwardly and outwardly curved stop member 75 projects from the stick engaging part 74 and bears against the adjacent edge of the base 70. After the lower stick has been contacted by the type bars 34 on the inward movement of the slides 11 the lower and now printed stick 59 is ejectedfrom the supporting member 69 by means of a pair of stick ejecting members 76 which are rockably carried by a horizontal shaft 77 secured to the wall 66 of feeding chute 58.

Each ejecting member 76 is formed with an outer cam member 78 which is engageable by a roller 53 so that the stick ejecting bill 79 will be rocked inwardly to thereby remove the lower printed stick from the supporting members 69. After the lower stick has been removed or ejected from the supporting member 69, the released stick is adapted to drop downwardly through an opening 80 formed in the base 10, and the stick 59 will then drop into a receiver 81 disposed below the base 10.

Ejecting member 76 is constantly urged to released position by means of a spring 82. In the released position of the ejecting members 76 these members will be disposed in confronting position to the holding member 74, as shown in Figure 6, for holding the lower stick 59 on the supporting members 69 so that the lower stick may be engaged by the type bars 34.

The sticks in the feeding chute 65 may be held against downward movement by means of a manually adjustable stop member 83 inthe form of an elongated fiat resilient bar which is formed with a pair of vertical elongated slots 84 through which securing members 85 engage.

A handle S6 is secured to the bar 83 adjacent the upper portion thereof so that bar 83 may be moved downwardly to operative position or moved upwardly to inoperative position. The lower end of bar 83 is formed with an inwardly directed bill 87 which engages through a slot 83 formed in the wall 66, and the lower end of the opening or slot 88 is formed with an inclined surface 59 which upon downward movement of bar 83 is adapted to guide or move bill 87 inwardly across the space between walls 65 and 66 and thereby cut off the further feeding of sticks to the supporting members 69.

In the use and operation of this machine, the printing plates 55 may be engaged with ink of different colors so that in the printing of the sticks 59 the printing will be formed in two colors. Rotation of the crank shafts will move the slides 11 toward and away from each other so that the type bars 34 will, on the inward movement thereof, engage the lower one of the sticks 59 disposed on the supports 69.

At the time the slides 11 are moving inwardly on the printing cycle the roller carrying levers 42 will have the forked ends 43 moving upwardly and carrying the rollers 37 upwardly over the guides 54 onto the inking plates 55. As the slides 11 move outwardly the inverted L-shaped levers 42 will rock downwardly at their inner ends and rollers 46 will roll downwardly over type bars 34.

At the time the rollers 36 are moving downwardly, in the last portion of their downward movement one of the pair of rollers 53 will engage the ejecting members 76 so as to rock these members inwardly at their lower ends to eject the lower printed stick 59 from the supports 69, and the ejected and printed stick will drop downwardly through the opening 80 into the receiver 81.

The feeding roller 60 is continuously operable, but due to the round formation of the sticks 59 the sticks contacting with feeding roller 60 will rotate with the feeding 4 roller 60 so that the sticks will roll freely into the chute 58 from the hopper and will feed down the chute to the printing position by gravity flow.

This machine will provide a means whereby round sticks, such as are used with popsickles or other frozen edibles, and lollypops, can be printed on diametrically opposed sides of the printing machine in contrasting colors.

What is claimed is:

1. A printing press for round sticks comprising a base, a pair of aligned slide members carried by said base, a type member on the inner end of each slide member, means reciprocating said slide members, a forked rock lever associated with each slide member, means mounting said rock levers on said base, an inking roller shaft, an inking roller on said shaft, means slidably carried by said rock lever supporting said shaft, means connecting said lever with a slide member whereby said lever will rock. with movement of said slide member, an inking plate, means supporting said plate in a position to be engaged by said roller, means supporting a stick between said type members, means actuated by said inking roller for removing said stick from said supporting means when said slide members are substantially at the end of their outward movement, and means feeding sticks to said supporting means.

2. A printing press for round sticks comprising a base, a pair of aligned slide members carried by said base, means reciprocating said slide members on said base, type members carried by the inner ends of said slide members, a pair of bell crank levers rockably carried by said base, each bell crank being inverted and formed with a tubular fork overlying a slide, a shaft extending across the ends of each fork, a pair of bearings for each shaft, a stem extending right angularly from each bearing and telescoping into said fork, spring means constantly urging said stems inwardly of the arms of said fork, an inking roller on said shaft, an inking plate, supporting means for said plate, guide means for said shaft extending between said plate and said slide members, means operatively connecting said levers with said slide members, means supporting a stick between said type members, means feeding sticks to said supporting means, and means actuated by said inking roller ejecting sticks from said stick supporting means.

3. A printing press for round sticks comprising a base, a pair of aligned slide members carried by said base, means securing a type bar to the inner end of each slide member, means reciprocating said slide members, an inking roller associated with each type bar, means connected with each slide member for vertically moving said rollers, means supporting a round stick in alignment and between said type bars, means directly actuated by one of said rollers for ejecting said stick from said supporting means, and means feeding sticks to said supporting means.

4. A printing press for round sticks comprising a base, a pair of aligned slide members carried by said base, means reciprocating said slide members, a type bar fixedly carried by the inner end of each slide member, an inking roller for each type bar, a forked roller carrying lever for each roller, means rockably supporting each lever, an angularly disposed arm projecting from the pivoted end of each lever, means connecting the lower end of each arm with an adjacent slide whereby movement of each slide will rock each lever, means supporting a round stick in a horizontal position between said type bars, means moved directly by one roller for ejecting said stick from said supporting means, and means feeding sticks to said supporting means.

5. A printing press comprising a pair of opposed. printing members, means moving said members toward and away from each other, a vertical feeding chute between said members, means at the lower end of said chute supporting anarticle to be printed, an oscillatinginking roller for each member, and an article ejecting member carried 5 by the lower end of said chute disposed in the path of the movement of one of said rollers for ejecting the article from said supporting means on being moved by said roller moving in its inking cycle.

6. A printing press for elongated slender articles comprising a base, a pair ofaligned slide members carried by said base, a crankshaft overlying each of said slide members and mounted for rotation on said base, a connecting rod connecting each of said crankshafts to its respective slide member whereby rotation of said crankshafts will reciprocate said slide members, means rotating said crankshafts in opposite directions whereby said slide members will simultaneously move toward and away from each other, printing type carried by the inner ends of said slide members, a pair of bell crank levers rockably carried by said base, each bell crank being inverted and formed with a tubular fork overlying one of said slide members, a shaft extending across the ends of each fork, a pair of bearings for each shaft, a stem extending right angularly from each bearing and telescoping into said fork, a spring connecting each of said bearings with said forks whereby said shafts are constantly urged toward said forks, an inking roller on each of said shafts, an inking plate for each of said rollers, means supporting each inking plate on said base overlying said slides, a guide for each of said shafts extending between said plates and said base, means operatively connecting each of said bell crank levers with their respective slide members, a support holding said article in printing position between said type members, means feeding articles to said support, and an ejector having a cam face, one of said inking rollers being adapted to engage said cam face actuating said ejector to eject the printed article during the inking cycle.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS Re. 7,059 Hall et a1. Apr. 18, 1876 501,319 Bowman July 11, 1893 743,884 Ketcheson Nov. 10, 1903 2,169,238 Garrott t,. Aug. 15, 1939 

